Sundance Winner Shame and Money Deserves Your Attention

The film opens on a small family farm where Shaban and his wife, Hatixhe, make a living by selling milk and dairy products from their cows. They live with Shaban’s mother and brother, Agim, a teacher – a large, seemingly cheerful family who share meals together. The family dynamic shifts when their youngest brother, Liridon, asks for 1800 Euros to move to Germany for work, but is largely dismissed due to a history of unreliability. After an argument, Liridon vanishes, along with the family’s cows. Now without income, Shaban, Hatixhe, Shaban’s mother, and their three children relocate to Pristina, where Hatixhe’s brother-in-law, Alban, owns a nightclub and provides them with temporary housing and odd jobs. Struggling to make ends meet, Shaban begins taking on any available day labor work, finding jobs with groups of workers on the street.








